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The Philadelphia Negro: A Social Study
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The Suppression of the African Slave-Trade to the United States, 1638-1870
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From Slavery to Freedom: A History of African Americans
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Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: Black Women, Work, and the Family from Slavery to the Present
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Generations of Captivity: A History of African-American Slaves
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Sweet Land of Liberty: The Forgotten Struggle for Civil Rights in the North
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The New Negro
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Ida: A Sword Among Lions
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The Ways of White Folks
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The Autobiography of Malcolm X
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The Strange Career of Jim Crow
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Becoming
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Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History
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American Apartheid: Segregation and the Making of the Underclass
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Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
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In Struggle: SNCC and the Black Awakening of the 1960s
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Lost Prophet: The Life and Times of Bayard Rustin
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Southern Horrors and Other Writings: The Anti-Lynching Campaign of Ida B. Wells, 1892-1900
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Ar'n't I a Woman?: Female Slaves in the Plantation South
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Race Rebels : Culture, Politics, and the Black Working Class
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Gender and Jim Crow: Women and the Politics of White Supremacy in North Carolina, 1896-1920
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The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit
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Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment
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Killing Rage: Ending Racism
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Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World
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All Our Kin: Strategies for Survival in a Black Community
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American Slavery: 1619-1877
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Freedom Summer
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Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision
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Waiting 'Til the Midnight Hour: A Narrative History of Black Power in America
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How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America: Problems in Race, Political Economy, and Society
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Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists During the Great Depression
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An Autobiography
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Nigger
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Jesus and the Disinherited
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Let the Trumpet Sound: A Life of Martin Luther King Jr.
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Black Power: The Politics of Liberation
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A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches
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At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape, and Resistance--A New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power
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The Price of the Ticket: Collected Nonfiction, 1948-1985
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Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday
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Black Looks: Race and Representation
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Racism without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in the United States
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Discourse on Colonialism
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But Some of Us Are Brave: All the Women Are White, All the Blacks Are Men: Black Women's Studies
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Before the Mayflower: A History of Black America
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When and Where I Enter: The Impact of Black Women on Race and Sex in America
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Women, Race & Class
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This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color
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Soul on Ice
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Why We Can't Wait
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Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism
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Black Skin, White Masks
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Race Matters
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The Fire Next Time
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The Souls of Black Folk
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The Mis-Education of the Negro
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Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention
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Parting the Waters: Martin Luther King and the Civil Rights Movement 1954-63
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The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Mules and Men
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W.E.B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race, 1868-1919
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Black Reconstruction in America 1860-1880
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Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination
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I've Got the Light of Freedom: The Organizing Tradition and the Mississippi Freedom Struggle, With a New Preface
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The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution
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Radio Free Dixie: Robert F. Williams and the Roots of Black Power
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Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution 1863-1877
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
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The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
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Capitalism & Slavery
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Deromanticizing Black History: Critical Essays and Reappraisals
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The Hidden Cost of Being African American: How Wealth Perpetuates Inequality
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Beyond Boundaries: The Manning Marable Reader
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Speaking Truth To Power: Essays On Race, Resistance, And Radicalism
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Beyond Black and White: Rethinking Race in American Politics and Society
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Racial Formation in the United States: From the 1960s to the 1990s
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The Wretched of the Earth
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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
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Invisible Man
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Too Heavy a Load: Black Women in Defense of Themselves, 1894-1994
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The Slave Ship: A Human History
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
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The Trials of Phillis Wheatley: America's First Black Poet and Her Encounters with the Founding Fathers
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Black Women in White America: A Documentary History
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John Brown
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Defying Dixie: The Radical Roots of Civil Rights: 1919-1950
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Lift Every Voice: The NAACP and the Making of the Civil Rights Movement
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Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era
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The Civil War: A Narrative
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Forever Free: The Story of Emancipation and Reconstruction
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
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The Promise of the New South: Life after Reconstruction
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Scottsboro: A Tragedy of the American South
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Selected Writings and Speeches of Marcus Garvey
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Protest at Selma: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Voting Rights Act of 1965
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Ralph Ellison: A Biography
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Florynce "Flo" Kennedy: The Life of a Black Feminist Radical
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The Scholar Denied: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Birth of Modern Sociology
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